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Correctional officers join demonstrators as they gather outside the Massachusetts State House in Boston to protest COVID-19 vaccination and mask mandates.

News Prisons & Policing

When Prison Guards Refuse Vaccines, Incarcerated People Pay the Price

Over 400,000 vaccinated and unvaccinated guards potentially serve as vectors for spreading disease.

by: Ella Fassler,; Truthout

Haitian migrants are pictured in a makeshift encampment where more than 12,000 people hoping to enter the United States await under the international bridge in Del Rio, Texas on September 21, 2021.

Op-Ed Immigration

As COVID Travel Restrictions Ease, It’s Past Time to Repeal Title 42

Title 42 continues to be used more as a tool of immigration policy than as a legitimate response to the pandemic.

by: Sasha Abramsky,; Truthout

Halyna Hutchins attends the SAGindie Sundance Filmmakers Reception at Cafe Terigo on January 28, 2019, in Park City, Utah.

Op-Ed Economy & Labor

Cinematographer’s Death by Prop Gun Is Not Just a Tragedy. It’s a Labor Issue.

Halyna Hutchins died because Hollywood bosses failed to ensure safe labor conditions for TV and film workers.

by: Ezra Brain,; Left Voice

India Walton speaks to a crowd in Buffalo, New York. Walton's all-volunteer campaign for mayor defeated a four-term incumbent the in Democratic primary.

Interview Politics & Elections

India Walton: Democrats Have “Gotten Very Comfortable Doing Nothing”

An interview with India Walton, the socialist who could soon be Buffalo’s next mayor.

by: Mike Ludwig,; Truthout

Donnell Murray with his son.

News Prisons & Policing

How Prosecutors Use Conspiracy and Questionable Testimony in “Gang” Cases

Donnell Murray’s trial shows what happens when police and prosecutors use their most powerful tools against Black men.

by: Josmar Trujillo,; Truthout

United States Postmaster General Louis Dejoy speaks during a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on February 24, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

News Politics & Elections

Watchdog Exposes Huge Conflicts of Interest Missteps With DeJoy Appointment

DeJoy failed to divest himself from several corporations in the first months of his tenure.

by: Chris Walker,; Truthout

Exclusives

Politics & Elections

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi attends the 10th anniversary celebration of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial near the Tidal Basin on the National Mall on October 21, 2021, in Washington, D.C.

Secretive House Caucus Is Appointing Corporate Democrats to Key Committee Seats

The Steering and Policy Committee won't release its rules or disclose its members.

by: Donald Shaw,; Sludge

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer speaks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol on June 15, 2021, in Washington, D.C.

Chuck Schumer Endorses Socialist India Walton in Heated Buffalo Mayoral Race

by: Sharon Zhang,; Truthout

President Joe Biden participates in a CNN town hall at Baltimore Center Stage in Baltimore, Maryland, on October 21, 2021.

Biden Says He’s Open to Reforming Filibuster to Win Voting Rights

by: Julia Conley,; Common Dreams

A member of the right-wing group Oath Keepers stands guard during a rally in front of the U.S. Supreme Court Building on January 5, 2021 in Washington, D.C.

The Oath Keepers Militia Movement Has Taken Root in the Republican Mainstream

by: Isaac Arnsdorf,; ProPublica

Prisons & Policing

Former prisoners of Rikers Island, family members of prisoners who have died at the jail and advocates for closing Rikers Island protest the deaths of 12 prisoners in 2021 on October 1, 2021, outside of City Hall in downtown Manhattan, New York.

Rikers Island and the Shapeshifting Monster of Reform

“We’re talking about a hostage situation and the answer is to free the hostages,” says Kelly Hayes.

by: Kelly Hayes,; Truthout

Advocates Demand Action At Rikers Island Jail

Rikers’ Forceful Guard Union Is Deepening the Jail’s Humanitarian Crisis

by: Jarrod Shanahan,; Truthout

People display a sign reading "COVID BEHIND BARS = DEATH" during an outdoor protest

I’ve Spent 35 Years in Prison. I Live Each Day Fearing Another Wave of COVID.

by: Henry Messenger,; Truthout

A "Safety Ambassador" with the Downtown Ventura Partners Improvement District hands out a free face mask on August 11, 2020, in Los Angeles, CA.

“Business Improvement Districts” Quietly Privatize the Policing of Public Space

by: Tyler Walicek,; Truthout

Environment & Health

Workers remove non-recyclable plastics from cardboard at Republic Services in Anaheim, California, on April 15, 2021.

US Plastics Industry Will Have More Emissions Than Coal by 2030, New Report Says

As the coal industry declines, the climate toll of plastics must be factored into emissions reductions efforts at COP26.

by: Elizabeth Gribkoff,; Environmental Health News

A healthcare worker administers the first dose of a Pfizer vaccine as part of the immunization plan against COVID-19 for children aged 5-to-11 on October 18, 2021, in Cuenca, Ecuador.

Pfizer Vaccine 91 Percent Effective at Preventing COVID Infections in Kids

by: Chris Walker,; Truthout

Climate activists participate in a pre-march rally at Freedom Plaza on October 15, 2021, in Washington, D.C.

White House Climate-Related Financial Risk Report Denounced as “Pitiful” Failure

by: Jon Queally,; Common Dreams

Mount Kenya National Park and Reserve, home to the glacial lake Tyndall Tarn and shrinking Tyndall Glacier, is pictured in the highlands of central Kenya, on November 25, 2012.

Africa Will Lose All Three of Its Icebergs to Climate Change

by: Matthew Rozsa,; Salon

Racial Justice

Ahmaud Arbery's Family Worries About Impartiality of Jurors in Murder Trial

Ahmaud Arbery’s Family Worries About Impartiality of Jurors in Murder Trial

Jury selection began this week in the trial of three white men who fatally shot the 25-year-old, unarmed Ahmaud Arbery.

by: Amy Goodman,; Democracy Now!

A Black professor about to write with chalk on a chalkboard is recorded by a white student with a cell phone

No, Black People Can’t Be “Racists”

by: George Yancy,; Truthout

Hands pass seedling plant to child

Food Apartheid Threatens BIPOC Children’s Health. Food Sovereignty Is the Fix.

by: Eisa Nefertari Ulen,; Truthout

A demonstration in honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day at Freedom Plaza on October 11, 2021, in Washington, D.C.

Indigenous People With Disabilities Are on the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis

by: Jen Deerinwater,; Truthout